Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pique, were "strange, to say the least." Moscow scored his criticism of the Soviet system as "inventions, which are standard for present American propaganda." At the same time, the Soviets were showing their disdain for foreign criticism. Even as Carter was speaking, a prominent Moscow dissident, Electrical Communications Engineer Vladimir Slepak, 50, was under arrest on charges of "malicious hooliganism." Slepak had applied without success a dozen times since 1970 to emigrate to Israel; in final desperation he had demonstrated publicly from the balcony of his Moscow apartment. At week's end there was indication that the Soviets might...
...believed to be on Belgrade's list was Marko Krpan, 26, who was sentenced by a West German court to 10½ years in prison for shooting Yugoslav Düsseldorf Vice Consul Vladimir Topic. But some of the "political terrorists" are considered by Bonn to be political refugees; among them is Nikola Milivevis, who was granted asylum in West Germany since his only "crime" appeared to be that he headed the Catholic Croatian Workers Movement, which had no known ties to extremism...
Nations, and Vladimir Zinyakin, a member of the Soviet U.N. mission. The first two were charged with espionage and put in jail, where they remained last week in default of $2 million bail apiece. They face life imprisonment if convicted. Zinyakin, who has diplomatic immunity, may simply be sent home by the Soviets at the State Department's request. As is apt to happen in the spy business, the three had been doublecrossed by Ed, actually a loyal Navy officer who went along with the Russians to entrap them. His name is being withheld, but he may have...
...Vladimir Nabokov embraced a similar theme to some wondrous effects in his novel Ada. But the author is no Nabokov, though he shares the master's taste for drollery and erudition. Like Nabokov, he is also something of an outsider. Born in Massachusetts, Theroux has lived abroad most of his adult life. His present home is London. Picture Palace is his tenth novel; The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of the author's international train travels, was a bestseller in 1975, and his reviews and critieism appear with regularity in the U.S. and England...
Professor Vladimir K. Petric (called by everyone "Vlada") enters the Carpenter Center lecture hall on May 2 for what is to be the last lecture of his five-year career as Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor of Film Studies. Of the 180 students enrolled in the course, nine are present. By the end of the lecture, six more will have arrived. A puzzled girl distributes Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Guide Course Evaluation sheets for next year's publication, but Professor Petric informs her with a trace of exasperation, that both he and the course will depart after this lecture...